Number of Australian resident patents in 'triadic' patent families (European Patent Office, US Patent and Trademark Office and the Japanese Patent Office) per million populationSource:OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard

Number of international patent applications filed with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) by country of origin.Source:World Intellectual Property Organisation

Inventiveness co-efficient: number of resident patent applications per capita

International mobility of students: enrolled tertiary students who are not Australian citizens, proportion of total enrolment Source: OECD Science, Technology and Industry ScoreboardDepartment of Education Science and Training/The Overseas Student Data Collection

CHARACTERISTIC: Innovation

INDICATORS:

Proportion of manufacturing businesses which are innovative by business size, industry and broad type of innovation (product, process or organisational).

Expenditure on technological innovation by manufacturing businesses by business size, industry and type of innovation (R&D, acquisition of technology etcSource:ABSInnovation in Industry